Create and manage redirects in VS Code documentation when pages are moved, renamed, or deleted. Use when moving docs pages, renaming files, restructuring content, or when the user asks about redirects.
Check and optimize MetaDescription frontmatter fields in VS Code documentation. Use when auditing, adding, or improving page descriptions for SEO and discoverability. Apply this when making content changes to markdown articles.
Guidelines for writing and reviewing Insiders and Stable release notes for Visual Studio Code.
description: Build quick IRR/MOIC sensitivity tables for PE deal evaluation. Models returns across entry multiple, leverage, exit multiple, growth, and hold period scenarios. Use when sizing up a deal, stress-testing assumptions, or preparing IC returns exhibits. Triggers on "returns analysis", "IRR sensitivity", "MOIC table", "what's the return at", "model the returns", or "back of the envelope".
Build institutional-grade comparable company analyses with operating metrics, valuation multiples, and statistical benchmarking in Excel/spreadsheet format. **Perfect for:** - Public company valuation (M&A, investment analysis) - Benchmarking performance vs. industry peers - Pricing IPOs or funding rounds - Identifying valuation outliers (over/under-valued) - Supporting investment committee presentations - Creating sector overview reports **Not ideal for:** - Private companies without comparable public peers - Highly diversified conglomerates - Distressed/bankrupt companies - Pre-revenue startups - Companies with unique business models
Generate professional company tear sheets using S&P Capital IQ data via the Kensho LLM-ready API MCP server. Use this skill whenever the user asks for a tear sheet, company one-pager, company profile, fact sheet, company snapshot, or company overview document — especially when they mention a specific company name or ticker. Also trigger when users ask for equity research summaries, M&A company profiles, corporate development target profiles, sales/BD meeting prep documents, or any concise single-company financial summary. This skill supports four audience types: equity research, investment banking/M&A, corporate development, and sales/business development. If the user doesn't specify an audience, ask. Works for both public and private companies.
description: Build and maintain a calendar of upcoming catalysts across a coverage universe — earnings dates, conferences, product launches, regulatory decisions, and macro events. Helps prioritize attention and position ahead of events. Triggers on "catalyst calendar", "upcoming events", "what's coming up", "earnings calendar", "event calendar", or "catalyst tracker".
This skill should be used when completing LBO (Leveraged Buyout) model templates in Excel for private equity transactions, deal materials, or investment committee presentations. The skill fills in formulas, validates calculations, and ensures professional formatting standards that adapt to any template structure.
Framework for building competitive landscape decks — market positioning, competitor deep-dives, comparative analysis, strategic synthesis. Use when the user asks for a competitive landscape, competitor analysis, peer comparison, market positioning assessment, strategic review, or investment memo deck. Also triggers on "who are the competitors to X", "benchmark X against peers", "build a market map", or any request to systematically evaluate competitive dynamics across an industry.
Analyze the interest rate swap curve by pricing swaps at multiple tenors, overlaying government and inflation curves, and identifying curve trade opportunities. Use when analyzing swap curves, computing swap spreads, decomposing real rates, identifying steepener/flattener/butterfly trades, or comparing swap rates across currencies.
Complete, populate and fill out 3-statement financial model templates (Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement) . Use when asked to fill out model templates, complete existing model frameworks, populate financial models with data, complete a partially filled IS/BS/CF framework, or link integrated financial statements within an existing template structure. Triggers include requests to fill in, complete, or populate a 3-statement model template
description: Build accretion/dilution analysis for M&A transactions. Models pro forma EPS impact, synergy sensitivities, and purchase price allocation. Use when evaluating a potential acquisition, preparing merger consequences analysis for a pitch, or advising on deal terms. Triggers on "merger model", "accretion dilution", "M&A model", "pro forma EPS", "merger consequences", or "deal impact analysis".
Build macroeconomic and rates dashboards combining macro indicators, yield curves, inflation breakevens, and swap rates. Use when monitoring macro conditions, analyzing yield curve shape, decomposing real vs nominal rates, assessing policy rate expectations, or evaluating financial conditions.
description: Draft anonymous one-page company teasers for sell-side M&A processes. Creates a compelling summary without revealing the company's identity, designed to gauge buyer interest before NDA execution. Triggers on "teaser", "blind teaser", "anonymous profile", "one-pager for process", or "draft teaser for sell-side".
Generate a polished one-page PowerPoint slide summarizing key takeaways from recent funding rounds and notable capital markets activity across a user's watched sectors or companies. Use this skill when the user asks for a deal flow summary, weekly recap, funding digest, transaction roundup, or capital markets briefing. Triggers on: 'deal flow digest', 'weekly funding recap', 'deal roundup', 'transaction summary this week', 'what happened in [sector] this week', 'capital markets update', or any request to compile recent funding activity into a briefing slide. Produces a professional single-slide PPTX with key takeaways, valuation data, and Capital IQ deal links.
Clean up messy spreadsheet data — trim whitespace, fix inconsistent casing, convert numbers-stored-as-text, standardize dates, remove duplicates, and flag mixed-type columns. Use when data is messy, inconsistent, or needs prep before analysis. Triggers on "clean this data", "clean up this sheet", "normalize this data", "fix formatting", "dedupe", "standardize this column", "this data is messy".
Creates self-contained PPT template SKILLS (not presentations) from user-provided PowerPoint templates. Use ONLY when a user wants to create a reusable skill from their template. For creating actual presentations, use the pptx skill instead.
Discovers and implements gaps in Spector test coverage for the C# HTTP client emitter. Use when asked to find missing Spector scenarios, add Spector test coverage, or implement a specific Spector spec for the C# emitter.
Build and test the @typespec/http-client-python emitter. Use this skill whenever the user wants to test their local changes to the emitter, run the generator test suite, check if their http-client-python changes are passing, or validate a fix. Triggers on phrases like "test the emitter", "run tests", "check if my changes pass", "run test:generator", "run CI", or any mention of testing/validating changes in the emitter package.
Regenerate the local emitter and diff the generated code against the upstream baseline checked into autorest.python. Use this skill when the user wants to see how their emitter changes affect generated code compared to what's currently in production, says things like "diff upstream", "compare to baseline", "what changed vs production", "show me the diff", "how does this affect generated code", or wants to validate their changes produce the expected output differences.